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Re: st: any simpler way to add text to a graph
From
Scott Merryman <[email protected]>
To
[email protected]
Subject
Re: st: any simpler way to add text to a graph
Date
Wed, 13 Apr 2011 09:44:38 -0500
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 8:52 AM, Data Analytics Corp.
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I created a simple graph that merely plots the means for a variable where
> the means are based on a categorical variable. I created the means using
> collapse:
>
> collapse ocs, by(project)
>
> I then added a variable to this data set as
>
> gen x = 0.5
>
> and created the graph I want as
>
> scatter ocs x, xline(0.5)
>
> I want to add a label next to each point, the label naming the project. I
> first added, as an example, text(0.49 0.45 "Project 1", place(w)) to the
> scatter command. That worked. But I have 10 projects. I would have to add
> 10 such text commands. This is very inefficient. Is there a better way?
>
-mlabel()- option? See -help marker_label_options-
For example:
. sysuse auto,clear
(1978 Automobile Data)
. scatter mpg weight in 1/5, mlabel(make) mlabpos(9) mlabs(*.75)
Scott
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